There are 1029 photographs (black and white, 6 x 6 cm) split over two parts (or albums). Norman Francis Nelson (also knowns as "NF") was the main photographer. The photographs document the travels of "NF" and JT Robinson as they journeyed from Brisbane, visiting, inspecting and evaluating the four mission stations administered by the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. There are many photographs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The original album with its captioning was retained (in Box 1); the photograph captions were transposed exactly into the new albums, and these captions are used as the titles for each photographs; titles in square brackets are provided by Library staff.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence relating to the novel Blood red, Sister Rose (1974).

Box 1
Folder 1
Two letters concerning Blood red, Sister Rose. One is from typist Iris (?) Woollard in Kent, England, one leaf, undated; the other is from Simon King, of Collins Publishers, London, eight leaves, dated 20 September 1973, with editorial comments about Blood red, Sister Rose and Thomas Kenneally's pen annotations responding to the comments.

Folders 2-4
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 129 leaves, some handwritten, some typescript, and cut-up fragments of the draft. Some of the draft is written on the back of typescript (duplicated) pages from Thomas Keneally's play 'An awful rose' and some pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes an envelope, with 'BRSR fragments' written on the front in texta, used to post the fragments from Thomas Keneally's address in England to his address in Australia.

Folders 5-6
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 466 leaves, some typescript, some handwritten, inconsistent pagination in the top right corner. Some of the pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes an envelope used to post the draft pages from Thomas Keneally's address in England to his address in Australia, and a 1973 playbill from the Bankside Globe Playhouse in London used as scrap paper for pen notes relating to Blood red, Sister Rose.

Folders 7-8
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 379 leaves, mostly handwritten, some typescript, inconsistent numeric and alphabetic pagination in the top right corner. Some of the pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes research notes and editorial comments on torn pieces of paper. Continues into Parcel 2 Folders 1-2.

Parcel 1
Folders 1-2
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, continued from Box 2 Folders 7-8.

The series is comprised of letters from and to John (Jack) Fryer; and documents relating to him such as birth and death certificates, educational reports and results.

Correspondence; financial records; articles of Association and Prospectus of Company; newspaper cuttings.

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence. Something in the blood was published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1979. Consisting of fifteen (15) short stories set in Papua New Guinea before its Independence. The short story Drowning was first published in the New Guinea Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1975-76. Some stories contain short passages in Pidgin. The stories deal with the themes of local customs, attitudes, acts of aggression, missionaries, loneliness, and racism. Includes drafts, cuttings of reviews from journals and magazine, scripts of radio plays adapted from the stories, and related correspondence.

Personal and professional correspondence.

Handwritten and typed drafts of Anne McCosker's poems and short stories, often with heavy editing and annotations, and notes and drafts for the book Lieutenant Martin's Letters. Many of the drafts of poems and stories are in notebooks. The series also contains a typed draft of a story titled 'Pacific Pot Pourri: Concerning One Klearwatgear', written during World War 2 by Winifred Martin.

Box 1
Folders 1 - 4: 118 letters by Harold Shapcott to his family, written while on active service in World War I, 1915 - 1919
Folder 5: Typed transcript of letters in folder 1 - 4
Folder 6: 7 letters to Harold Shapcott from his family, 1916 - 1919.
Folders 7 - 10: 45 letters and 35 greeting cards from friends to Harold Shapcott, 1917 - 1922; 1929.

Box 2
Folder 1: 4 letters from Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 1919 - 1921.
Folder 2: 12 letters from the 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee, 1927 - 1943.
Folder 3: 17 items of correspondence relating to War Pension, 1936 - 1972.
Folder 4: 1 letter from Lloyd Hodge relating to 'War Babies', 15 April 1959.
Folder 5: 15 items of correspondence relating to 'Overseas trip', including earlier letters from France, 1919 - 1964.
Folder 6: 12 items of correspondence, including in relation to memberships and motor vehicles, 1938 - 1967.

Two bound scrapbooks of records collected by Mary M. Bennett when compiling the history of her father, Sir Robert Christison, The bound volumes include: newspaper cuttings, extracts of newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, reprints of articles, and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land. Most of the material covers the period 1870 to 1910.

Forty open open reel audiotapes of interviews as part of the project From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970.